I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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